Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State by Ki... - 9780226838403

Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral StateAuthor(s): Kirstine Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226838403, 978-0226838403\nSynopsis\nThe story of how the American South became the most incarcerated region in the worlds most incarcerated nation.\n\nSunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State examines the evolution of southern criminal punishment from Jim Crow to the dawn of mass incarceration, charting this definitive era of carceral transformation and expansion in the southern United States. The demise of the county chain gang, the professionalization of police, and the construction of large-scale prisons were among the sweeping changes that forever altered the southern landscape and bolstered the regions capacity to punish. What prompted this southern revolution in criminal punishment? \n\n Kirstine Taylor argues that the crisis in the cotton fields and the .